30 Jan 1991
THE QUEEN v. NG WAI KWONG
- Citation
- THE QUEEN v. NG WAI KWONG
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CACC341/1990
A defendant's discount for cooperation and giving evidence should be applied to the offences to which the assistance/evidence directly relates; it is not automatically transferable in full to unrelated offences, although a judge may elect to apply a scaled-down across-the-board discount to reflect unassisted offences; applying that principle, the total effective sentence of 15 years did not offend the totality principle and the appeal was dismissed.
- Discount for assistance to authorities
- Co-operation and giving evidence against co-accused
- Concurrent and consecutive sentencing
- Totality principle
- Conversion of drug classes (no.4 to no.3)